Respect and Support for People Claiming Welfare Benefits Self-help, information and advice on how to prevent and challenge benefit sanctions. Support with ESA, PIP claims, the work programme and other mandatory schemes.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) faced a media onslaught on Wednesday 18 July. A parliamentary committee said it owed millions in back payments to thousands of claimants. But much of the coverage failed to pose the question: what are the implications for the already chaotic rollout of Universal Credit?The DWP: another damning report

The Public Accounts Committee has released a report into Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). It specifically looks at the department’s errors in paying claimants correctly when they transferred from old welfare support, like Incapacity Benefit, to ESA. The committee found that there were an: